INDIAN ISLAND 



Haskins was with General Harrison on that fa- 

 mous march up the Wabash and Tippecanoe 

 Rivers and it was this white hunter who fired the 

 first shot at the Battle of Tippecanoe. On a 

 misty, moonlight night in November, 1811, Mas- 

 kins was on picket duty and as the Indians 

 made theiF attack on the camp in the night by 

 crawling upon the sleeping army. In the early 

 part of the night it had been raining but along 

 about midnight it broke away and the clouds 

 were thin and scattering. There was a full 

 moon and as the clouds were light they moved 

 very rapidly and at times the moon shown in its 

 full brightness. As the Indians had just been 

 supplied with new guns and hatchets they were 

 still very bright. The Indians made their attack 

 about three o'clock in the morning and as they 

 skulked and crawled upon the camp Haskins 

 saw something glisten as the moon shone 

 through the thin clouds and knew what it was. 

 He pulled his gun to his shoulder, took aim at 

 the glistening object, pulled the trigger, and an 



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